How to store non-JSON response into a Postman Environmental Variable - environment-variables

In Postman, I am doing a GET request to obtain an OAuth token. In the API, the response gives me a login URL value where once decoded, I will then be re-directed to the 3rd party to then gain the token etc.
The API response however is not a JSON response. By default the value is a text response.
I am aware that to store a JSON value I would use syntax like the below:
var data = JSON.parse(responseBody);
postman.setEnvironmentVariable("login_url", data.login_url);
But how would I store the value if the response is not a JSON?

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restsharp and Postman

I am attempting to get an OAuth2 access token from ZOHO using RestSharp code. The Postman simulation works correctly so I know there is something I'm missing in my code.
I always get an "invalid client id" result status. However in Postman, it works and returns a code when I click the "Get new access token". I have the same items as in the Postman authorization tab (client_id, client_secret, etc). In Postman, "Body" is set to "none", and there are no parameters or headers. The only difference between my code and postman, is that Postman requires the Callback URL. My code is trying to get the code using "self-client", which bypasses the callback URL.
I have tried several different alternatives to the request call including ParameterType.Body, and ParameterType.GetOrPost. Is GetOrPost the same as a form?
client = New RestClient(ZOHO_API_URL)
request = New RestRequest(TokenUrl, Method.POST)
request.AddHeader("content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded") ' also tried: "application/json")
request.AddParameter("grant_type", "authorization_code",
ParameterType.GetOrPost)
request.AddParameter("client_id", Client_ID, ParameterType.GetOrPost)
request.AddParameter("client_secret", Client_Secret,
ParameterType.GetOrPost)
request.AddParameter("code", Grant_Token, ParameterType.GetOrPost)
response = client.Execute(request)
This is the translated Postman code for RestSharp:
var client = new RestClient("http://");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
request.AddHeader("Postman-Token", "xxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxx");
request.AddHeader("cache-control", "no-cache");
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
Any ideas on what I am doing wrong. I have tried to view the raw data coming across with Fiddler, but when I do that, Postman indicates a failure.
What code do I need to use to duplicate what Postman is doing?
How do I implement a callback URL if that is also required?
I quickly checked ZoHo REST API docs and it seems like you should use the Limited Input Device authentication flow.
From what I can understand from their help page, you indeed need to do a POST request, but parameters must be specified as query parameters:
https://accounts.zoho.com/oauth/v3/device/code?
client_id=1000.GMB0YULZHJK411248S8I5GZ4CHUEX0&
scope=AaaServer.profile.READ&
grant_type=device_request
You will also get better off with JSON set as a default for serialisation and content type just by using client.UseJson().
It maybe that Postman is following a redirect from your API endpoint as the functionality is different Postman verses RestSharp (possibly missing a trailing slash or similar).
Try adding
client.FollowRedirects = false;
to your RestSharp code and analyse the result.

Authentication session is not defined

I try to use Google Photos API to upload my images, base on the steps of the following link.
https://developers.google.com/photos/library/guides/upload-media
After following the Using OAuth 2.0 for Web Server Applications, I just get the Oauth2.0_token response(a JSON format with access_token, refresh_token...). However, after I put this token string with "Bearer " into request headers, the response is error 401, the error message is "code 16 Authentication session is not defined".
I cannot find any information to deal with it, thank for any help.
You probably have incorrect permissions. Make sure you request the token with the appropriate scope. For write-only access you need 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/photoslibrary.appendonly'
src: https://developers.google.com/photos/library/guides/authentication-authorization#what-scopes
One reason this might be happening is that you initially authorized your user for read-only access. If you went through the authorization flow with a .readonly scope, your bearer token reflects that authorization (and the token is retained in your credentials file). If you change your scope but don't get a new auth token you will get this error when trying to upload. Simply redo the authorization flow with the new scope defined:
SCOPES = 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/photoslibrary'
store = file.Storage('path_to_store')
if not creds or creds.invalid:
flow = client.flow_from_clientsecrets('google_credentials.json', SCOPES)
creds = tools.run_flow(flow, store)
and your store will be populated with a new token that can be used for uploading.
You say you "just get the Oauth2.0_token response(a JSON format with access_token, refresh_token...)" and "put this token string with "Bearer " into request headers".
Unfortunately documentation on this isn't super clear in a lot of places. What you are supposed to provide after "Bearer" is the "access_token" field only, not the entire JSON string with all the token fields in it. For reference, this is a single string of random looking characters which probably starts with "ya29." and is pretty long - in my case it's 170 characters.

Unable to get the LTPA token using Rest assured

I am new to rest assured, I want to perform some get and post for test data generation using rest assured. But I am unable to get the LTPA token and pass them to post. This works with postman but I want to do it through java. Any help
final String uri = "https://XXXX/Rest/XXXXX?user=XXXXX&pass=XXXX";
final Response response = RestAssured.given().relaxedHTTPSValidation().accept(ContentType.JSON).get(uri);
System.out.println(response.prettyPrint());
Map<String, String> allCookies = response.cookies();
System.out.println(allCookies);
Output
{JSESSIONID=XXXXXXX:-1}
but i do not see the LTPA2 token
Your LTPA2 token must be in Response headers.
You can get the response headers by
response.headers ();
In case if LTPA token is also not available in headers then share the screenshot of postman so I can help you out.

AWS API Gateway issue for HTTP Method

I created an AWS API-gateway for an HTTP method PUT. When I do a test in API-gateway, that works fine, but when I call it from a REST client, I get 404 bad-request and missing authentication token errors. I didn't set any authorization to true or a required API key to true.
I passed these query parameters to a REST client:
auth_id : 8798iuyiu123123
time_stamp :1231231
test_json : [{"id"=>"1","value"=>"mount"},{"id"=>"2","value"=>"chart"}]
HEADER
content-type : application/json
When I change the test_json value to %5B%7B%22id%22:%221%22,%22value%22:%22test%22%7D,%7B%22id%22:%222%22,%22value%22:%2213+%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%, then I get the response.
i am new to react, calling from react
Request.put('https://api-gateway.sqwdwed123.com/eretw/update-chart')
.set('Content-Type', 'application/json')
.query({ auth_id: localStorage.auth_id})
.query({ time_stamp:this.props.time_stamp})
.query({ test_json:JSON.stringify(newadd)})
should i pass this test_json through body?
Am I doing anything wrong?
This is usually related to requesting a URL that doesn't exist. Please make sure you're using the correct HTTP method and resource path to a valid resource (the sample invoke URL does not include any resource path). If this still doesn't work. Make sure you actually deployed your API.
The HTTP Response of Bad Request is because you have the Query Parameter that are not URL Encoded. There are 2 things that you can do now:
Pass the test_json as Query Param but making sure that they are URL Encoded. This will put a restriction on the size of the string and hence Not Recommended.
Pass the test_json as Request Body. (Recommended)

BigCommerce oAuth auth token request always returning 401

I can not figure out what I'm doing wrong. I'm developing an App for BigCommerce and can not get the simple oAuth exchange to work correctly.
The initial get request is being made to https://www.my-app.com/oauth/bigcommerce/auth. This is the code in the controller for that request. It's a Laravel 5.6 app:
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Bigcommerce\Api\Client as Bigcommerce;
class BigcommerceOAuthController extends Controller
{
public function auth(Request $request)
{
$object = new \stdClass();
$object->client_id = 'my-client-id';
$object->client_secret = 'my-client-secret';
$object->redirect_uri = 'https://my-app.com/oauth/bigcommerce/auth';
$object->code = $request->get('code');
$object->context = $request->get('context');
$object->scope = $request->get('scope');
$authTokenResponse = Bigcommerce::getAuthToken($object);
$storeHash = str_replace('stores/', '', $request->get('context'));
Bigcommerce::configure(array(
'client_id' => 'my-client-id',
'auth_token' => $authTokenResponse->access_token,
'store_hash' => $storeHash
));
echo "<pre>";
print_r($authTokenResponse);
print_r(Bigcommerce::getTime());
echo "</pre>";
}
}
Every time I try to install my draft app from the BigCommerce control panel, I get an error because $authTokenResponse is not an object. When I debug further into the Bigcommerce\Api\Connection class, I can see that the response from the server is empty, and the status is a 401, which means "Unauthorized".
I can't figure out why I am getting this error. As far as I can see, I'm doing everything right. I've tried urlencoding the string retrieved from $request->get('scope'), since that string becomes unencoded by Laravel, but that didn't seem to help.
I am also confused how this is even supposed to work at all. In the BigCommerce docs, they show this example POST request, which uses application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Type and passes the request body as a url encoded string:
POST /oauth2/token HTTP/1.1 Host: login.bigcommerce.com Content-Type:
application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 186
client_id={CLIENT_ID}&client_secret={CLIENT_SECRET}&code=qr6h3thvbvag2ffq&scope=store_v2_orders&grant_type=authorization_code&redirect_uri=https://app.example.com/oauth&context=stores/{STORE_HASH}
However, if you inspect what's going on in the Connection class, you can see that the Content-Type is being set to application/x-www-form-urlencoded as the docs say, but the request body is being passed in as a json string, not a url string. Shouldn't the request be a url encoded string as the docs suggest?
A couple of things here to check:
Do you have a public URL where you can receive the Auth Callback?
If so, did the store owner registered the app successfully? https://developer.bigcommerce.com/api/registration
When you have the client_id and secret_id. You should have all of the details needed to send a POST request to the BC Auth Token Service at https://login.bigcommerce.com/oauth2/token
The content uses URL encode Make sure to URL encode your content. Be careful of of the encoding of & and = signs when those are actually being used as separators.
More details can be found in this post:
Can BigCommerce Private Apps use OAuth

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